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From: bls@mtx5w.UUCP (Bernard Smith)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: Indentation and braces
Message-ID: <733@mtx5w.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jun-86 12:11:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 11 12:11:03 1986
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> > In article <-18363551@sneaky> gordon@sneaky writes:
> > 		^^^^^ ????
> 
> It's a "notesfiles" site, presumably; they don't use the ordinal number
> of the article to generate the article ID.  They don't have to, either; the
> article ID merely has to be unique.
> 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that UN*X tabs
> > are at columns 1,9,17,25 etc and that this is not recommended, but in
> > fact *required* to get anywhere (e.g. ls emits tabs ).
> 
> Sort of, but not really.  There's a hack which dates back to PWB/UNIX, and
> is still around in System V, where you can stick a "tab specification" into
> a file indicating where the tab stops should be for that file.  I think the
> S5 "ed" will do its own tab expansion on output if it's editing such a file,
> and there are programs to do the tab expansion on files like that for
> printing.  The S5 "tabs" command can take a "tab specification" and set the
> hardware tabs according to that specification, or can read a file and set
> the tabs for the tab specification in that file.  I don't think the "vi"
> supplied with S5 knows about them, however.  Given what PWB/UNIX was
> originally intended for, it should be obvious why this "tab specification"
> stuff was stuck into PWB/UNIX.
> -- 
Tab specifications can be passed to vi (in S5) using a file .exrc in your
home directory: I use tabs every four columns (1, 5, 9, etc.) and my
.exrc file contains (in part)
set ts=4 shiftwidth=4
set ht=4

Bernard Smith, AT&TIS, Middletown, N.J.